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Richard Serra

Line Drawings

September 14–October 19, 2002
555 West 24th Street, New York

Richard Serra, Late September, 2001 Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 × 50 ½ inches (127 × 128.3 cm)Photo by Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, Late September, 2001

Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 × 50 ½ inches (127 × 128.3 cm)
Photo by Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, As of Yesterday, 2001 Paintstick on handmade paper, 40 ½ × 30 ¼ inches (102.9 × 76.8 cm)Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, As of Yesterday, 2001

Paintstick on handmade paper, 40 ½ × 30 ¼ inches (102.9 × 76.8 cm)
Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, Elliptical, 2002 Paintstick on handmade paper, 30 × 40 ½ inches (76.2 × 102.9 cm)Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, Elliptical, 2002

Paintstick on handmade paper, 30 × 40 ½ inches (76.2 × 102.9 cm)
Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, For Louise Bourgeois, 2002 Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 × 51 inches (127 × 129.5 cm)Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, For Louise Bourgeois, 2002

Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 × 51 inches (127 × 129.5 cm)
Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, Gravity, 2001 Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 ½ × 50 inches (128.3 × 127 cm)Photo: Robert McKeever

Richard Serra, Gravity, 2001

Paintstick on handmade paper, 50 ½ × 50 inches (128.3 × 127 cm)
Photo: Robert McKeever

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by Richard Serra. Collectively titled Line Drawings, these works were made in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, beginning in late 2000 and continuing over five distinct work periods until the summer of 2002.

The drawings are created using a stylus on the reverse side of paper that is laid over a pool of melted paintstick. “No direct drawing is done on the front of the paper,” Serra has said. “I don’t see the drawing I am making until the paper is pulled off the floor and turned over. . . . I have used various means over the years to avoid known solutions. In this series of line drawings the process is more important to me than analyzing and placing a line in relation to other lines.”

A fully illustrated catalogue including an essay by Richard Serra will accompany the exhibition.

Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2022

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2022

The Winter 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on its cover.

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Violinist Alina Ibragimova performs Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major: Adagio (BWV 1001, c. 1720) from within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies, a nonprofit organization that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances, in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022 before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Cellist Mario Brunello performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude (BWV 1007, c. 1717–23) within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies—a nonprofit that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances—in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022, before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

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From Richard Serra: Trevor Noah’s Message Against Racial Injustice

In response to enduring racial injustices and the recent widespread civil unrest, Richard Serra urges people to watch this video commentary by Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show.

Richard Serra, Hands Scraping, 1968, film still.

The Art of Perception: Richard Serra’s Films

For eleven years, from 1968 to 1979, Richard Serra created a collection of films and videos that felt out the uncharted phenomenological boundaries of the medium. Carlos Valladares explores a selection of these works.

The cover of the Fall 2019 Gagosian Quarterly magazine. Artwork by Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.